Twitter – Facebook. Apple – Orange.

So a while ago I read a post called Twitter versus Facebook: Should You Choose One? on the twitip blog.  It got heaps of responses from people, me included. I didn’t feel the urge to respond in detail until @valeriestevens raised the issue on a twitter post again today that got me thinking. Thanks @ValerieStevens!
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“Facebook shuns Burger King app”… Makes sense to me

I saw a link yesterday about  a marketing campaign from Burger King which was a facebook app designed by Burger offering a free whopper to anyone who dumped ten friends from their network. When I read it I thought, “what a stupid and nasty way to get publicity”, but I did acknowledge that it was probably going [...]

A case study in using facebook as a promotional tool

I’ve got a friend. A facebook friend that is. For the uninitiated or less familiar, the term “friend” on facebook is someone you have permitted to view your profile, write on your wall, view your photos, and most pertinently for the purposes of this blog, invite you to events.
How the facebook friend came to be
This [...]

Why do people spend more time on MySpace than Facebook?

A short observation for my Sunday musing. I was telling one of my friends who lives outside the city casually last night that people tend to stay on Facebook roughly half as long as MySpace, so although Myspace cannot compete with Facebook’s user growth once people are on there they stay for longer. To [...]

I think I’m addicted to the internet…

I may possibly be addicted to the internet. I’ve always been a heavy user. I’d go to work, come home and play around a little before cooking and doing something else that I can no longer remember. It’s a distant memory now. Blurred by the abuse to my eyesight, harm to my posture, neglect of [...]

All I do at work is sit online and chat with my friends.. no really… it’s true

A few times a week I devote a smallish amount of time at the start if my day to researching what’s going on in the world of learning, particularly learning online, even more particularly indulging my professional interest in connecting learners using technology.  I am often found searching wordpress for interesting ideas and links. I often [...]

Where else to protest about facebook than on facebook?

I just came across an interesting phenomenon. I have been following the revolt against facebook’s new interface for a few months. I can’t say my social networking experience dates back as far as many others, but I’ve been hanging around in this space for a few years now and one of the things web2.0 appears [...]

What will I think of myself in 20 years?

I had an interesting discussion with a classmate late night.  We were talking about communicating online, using Facebook of all things and he cited his reluctance to do pretty much anything online because he considers that once it’s online it’s in his words “published” and “permanent”.  He also noted that he is reluctant to comment on [...]

My (secret) online identities

I’ve been thinking about this digital literacy thing from my own reality.  There are heaps of definitions out there which basically say that to communiucate properly and safely online you need to be digitally literate, I’ve found Leigh Blackall’s work useful in the area of digital literacy. As our physical and digital lives increasingly converge, [...]